Comments on: Inspire decision http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:12:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Climate Change Elucidated :: Comment on Inspire decision by Phil Green http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-7413 Climate Change Elucidated :: Comment on Inspire decision by Phil Green Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:56:36 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=79#comment-7413 [...] Original post by unknown Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...] [...] Original post by unknown Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> By: Phil Green http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-5912 Phil Green Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:53:58 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=79#comment-5912 Will 'our' climate change data be free to reuse? Not many people may have noticed the recent (Monday, November 27 2006) publication of (UK) statistics on local and regional carbon dioxide emissions for 2004, Earlier this year the Guardian started up a campaign to Free Our Data and there are concerns about restrictions on the reuse of data presently covered by Crown Copyright. There is also a European campaign: public geodata. If the government is serious about climate change being the greatest threat to humanity, does it make sense to restrict in any way use of 'our' data which can help inform debate? As the government has invested substantial sums of public money to enable and encourage others, including community groups, to influence the wider public about climate change, isn't it shooting itself in the foot if it places unnecessary and bureaucratic limitation on the fair and reasonable use of data to support this important work? This original version of this comment was <a title="first published on the Sustainable Community Action wiki" href="http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Will_%27our%27_climate_change_data_be_free_to_reuse%3F">first published on the Sustainable Community Action wiki</a>, and subsequently copied to the Free Our Data blog Will ‘our’ climate change data be free to reuse?

Not many people may have noticed the recent (Monday, November 27 2006) publication of (UK) statistics on local and regional carbon dioxide emissions for 2004,

Earlier this year the Guardian started up a campaign to Free Our Data and there are concerns about restrictions on the reuse of data presently covered by Crown Copyright. There is also a European campaign: public geodata.

If the government is serious about climate change being the greatest threat to humanity, does it make sense to restrict in any way use of ‘our’ data which can help inform debate?

As the government has invested substantial sums of public money to enable and encourage others, including community groups, to influence the wider public about climate change, isn’t it shooting itself in the foot if it places unnecessary and bureaucratic limitation on the fair and reasonable use of data to support this important work?

This original version of this comment was first published on the Sustainable Community Action wiki, and subsequently copied to the Free Our Data blog

]]> By: Robert http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-5643 Robert Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:03:34 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=79#comment-5643 You can track every stage of the directive here: http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=191582 You can track every stage of the directive here:

http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=191582

]]> By: Laurent GUERBY http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-5150 Laurent GUERBY Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:55:22 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=79#comment-5150 Is the consolidated version of the directive available somewhere? Is the consolidated version of the directive available somewhere?

]]> By: serendipityoucity :: EU Spatial Data Directives Agreement :: November :: 2006 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/11/inspire-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-5058 serendipityoucity :: EU Spatial Data Directives Agreement :: November :: 2006 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:44:05 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=79#comment-5058 [...] The negotiations are over on the harmonization of Europe’s Geospatial Data Assets.Read - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) DirectivesPress Release (Eng, Finish) - European Parliament and Council reach agreement on spatial information directiveOpinion pieces from The Guardian’s Free Our Data Campaign - How the INSPIRE directive was watered down and INSPIRE decisionThe Talk on the street is, there has been much compromise and the extremes tempered! Which meams +/- more data access for all, +/- no cost, and +/- freer licenses!  Sound like the classic Canada Political Compromise context!I look forward to sitting and reading all this! I am guessing that we will not see a Geospatial Data Commons just yet!  Nor a North American unified directive on Civic Data Assets.There are some good initiatives to promote and push - Public Geodata License (PGL), initiatives like Open GeoData, refine the Open Data definition, read and assess GeoConnections Dissemination of Geographic Data - Guide to Best Practices, and promote & refine the Geobase Unrestricted Use License Agreement for other Federal, Provincial and Municipal public data assets.Much work remains for CivicAccess.ca to do to! Comments » [...] [...] The negotiations are over on the harmonization of Europe’s Geospatial Data Assets.Read – Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) DirectivesPress Release (Eng, Finish) – European Parliament and Council reach agreement on spatial information directiveOpinion pieces from The Guardian’s Free Our Data Campaign – How the INSPIRE directive was watered down and INSPIRE decisionThe Talk on the street is, there has been much compromise and the extremes tempered! Which meams +/- more data access for all, +/- no cost, and +/- freer licenses!  Sound like the classic Canada Political Compromise context!I look forward to sitting and reading all this! I am guessing that we will not see a Geospatial Data Commons just yet!  Nor a North American unified directive on Civic Data Assets.There are some good initiatives to promote and push – Public Geodata License (PGL), initiatives like Open GeoData, refine the Open Data definition, read and assess GeoConnections Dissemination of Geographic Data – Guide to Best Practices, and promote & refine the Geobase Unrestricted Use License Agreement for other Federal, Provincial and Municipal public data assets.Much work remains for CivicAccess.ca to do to! Comments » [...]

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